Roofing-package.



A. s. SPIEGEL.

ROOFING PACKAGE. APPLICATION FILED, rga. 23. 1915.-

Patented M 14, 1915.

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ALEXANDER S. SPIEGEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ROOFING-PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. II, I915.

Application filed February 23, 1915. Serial No. 10,091.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER S. SPIE-' GEL, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roofing- Packages, of which the following is a specification.

- It has heretofore been proposed to make arooiing package by taking a strip or sheet of double width; to divide this by a zigzag cutthrough the middle, and then wind the divided sheet into a roll with the serrated ends interlocking so as to protect the same.

It is the object of my invention to produce the same sheet with serrated edges, and I utilize a sheet of double width and formed with a zigzag cut, but instead of rolling the sheet as cut and without separating the sections, I guide the serrated sections into overlapping relation to each other and pass them over a roller, whence they are rolled up into a package. I have found by experience that the ends of the sections are more thoroughly protected and less likely to be broken off or bent out of shape than when they are in engaging connection, and I also secure the further advantage of having a roll or package of only about half the width of the ordinary package.

In the drawing I show in Figure 1 a plan of the double Width roofing section having the central zigzag cut, and at the right the guides for directing the severed ends into overlapping connection and with the roller for receiving the doubled parts; Fig. 1 is an edge view of Fig. 1; and Fig. 2 shows a view of the resultant package.

In carrying out my invention, I take a section of roofing material of double width and sever it centrally with a zigzag cutby any suitable means, and then as shown in Fig. l, the. severed parts are separated by a roller a and then guided into overlapping connection by guides Z), Z), and from thence the layers pass to any suitable means for rolling the doubled sections into a roll or package.

Fig. 2 shows the layers, one upon the other, with the zigzag edges protected by the adjacent solid portion of the roofing, the zigzag edges being in reverse position.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A roofing package consisting of roofing material having zig zag edges, one section laid upon the other in reverse position so as to protect the zig zag edges, substantially as described.

2. The method herein described, consisting in taking a roofing section of double width, cutting the same centrally into two sections, each having one irregular edge, guiding the cut ends into overlappin relation and then forming the overlappe sections into a package, with the irregular edges of the sections superposed in reverse position, substantially as described.

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In testimony whereof, I aflix my signa- I ture in presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER SQ SPIEGEL.

Witnesses:

PETER C. NIELSEN, J12, ALEXANDER BARBIE. 

